Performing Arts

Harvard’s stages and studios come alive in this collection of music, theater, and performance coverage.

A New “Black Swan” Musical Cranks Up the Tension

The creative team of the A.R.T.’s new show dish on adapting Darren Aronofsky’s thriller classic from screen to stage.

by Schuyler Velasco

Bringing Korean Stories to Life

Composer Julia Riew writes the musicals she needed to see.

by Max J. Krupnick

Thomas Andrew “Tom” Lehrer

The mathematician and satirist kept Harvard in his thoughts—and lyrics.

by Jonathan Shaw

The Woman Who Rode Horses Into the Water

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

A Filmmaker Finds Stories on the Margins

How John Armstrong’s outdoor documentaries capture the human spirit 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Filmmaker Salvador Litvaks Jewish Movies

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard Percussionist and Composer Jessie Cox

An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music

by Lydialyle Gibson

Remembering Harvard Professor and Composer Earl Kim

A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.

by Nina Pasquini

Staging Memory

The A.R.T. adapts The Odyssey.

by Max J. Krupnick

Music and Medicine

Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.


by Lydialyle Gibson

Works by Archaic Greek Poets Set to Music

Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.

by Craig Lambert